Reality TV World: How surprised were you when Ozzy and Danny Yielded Eric and Danielle during the eleventh leg for a quick buck from Dustin and Kandice?

Charla: Yeah, we were a little bit surprised about the whole Yield situation. But they had no money at that time so... And we did offer them money. And we did actually give them I think some money.Mirna: Actually when Charla was doing the jump off the Macau Tower [the Roadblock challenge where the deal went down], I actually ended up giving Ozwald $20. It wasn't a lot, but it's not like we had a lot of money on us either. The problem was, we didn't have a chance to see them since [the race's previous leg had ended]. So unfortunately, I think another team got to them and worked out a deal before we had a chance to offer them money. I knew they were running low. When we offered it, it was too late. But we gave them money anyway because I didn't want to see my friends struggling on the street and lost. There were a lot of times when we had no money left either...

That's what Mirna was talking about, I don't know why the producers did not put it on the web, maybe they didn't want us to think that Mirna was really nice?

A: I actually havenít cashed the cheque as I just got it yesterday. Itís sitting in my wallet right now. I really want to be smart with it. I want to make some good and sound investments like buy a house for my family.

Most of the time throughout my life, Iíve lived from paycheck to paycheck. Iíve had to work very hard so itís good to know that I can take care of my family and myself if anything important or any kind of emergency occurs. That is a really good feeling.

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Amazing Race: All-Stars winner says of ex-girlfriend: I never want to race with her again By Jeanmarie Tan

May 15, 2007

IF Eric Sanchez, winner of the recently-concluded The Amazing Race: All-Stars, had a choice, he would have wanted to race with a different partner.

Even though teammate and then-girlfriend Danielle Turner (left, with Sanchez) helped him nab the million-dollar booty, the 28-year-old waiter is convinced he could have reached the finish line with anyone else.

In fact, he felt it was 'exactly' like a 'Flo and Zach' situation.

Flo Pesenti and Zach Behr were the champs of The Amazing Race 3, but Pesenti was roundly criticised for her teary tantrums, whiny attitude and basically letting her long-suffering ex-boyfriend do all the dirty work.

Sanchez told The New Paper over the phone from his South Florida home: 'I take a lot of credit for our win. If I didn't push her so hard, we wouldn't have won.

'She did a good job, don't get me wrong, but I navigated, I drove, I made the decisions. She just had to do the tasks as best she could.

'I definitely could've won the race with any other partner, besides her. I'll never want to do it again with her!'

Unfortunately, poor Turner, a 23-year-old bartender from New York, was unable to defend herself in the usually shared phone interview because she wasn't picking up our calls.

After a one-year long-distance relationship, the couple made the 'mutual decision' to break up during the filming of The Amazing Race: All-Stars last December after 'fighting over too many little things'.

He said: 'The race showed us that the relationship wasn't as strong as we thought.'

The former lovers didn't talk for two weeks after, but keep in touch now.

Meanwhile, Sanchez - who has a new girlfriend - went on to admit that he would've preferred to join the All-Stars edition with his original Race partner Jeremy Ryan because 'he's a great competitor'.

The frat-boy slacker duo came in second to hippies BJ Averell and Tyler Macniven in the ninth season. It was also during then that Sanchez fell for Turner, one-half of a bosomy, blonde female team nicknamed 'the Double-Ds'.

But he said the producers, who found out he and Turner started dating after the season ended, picked her instead because 'they didn't want an alpha male team'.

Sanchez said he was surprised to discover on the race 'how high-maintenance she was'.

He said: 'I always knew she was a girly girl who liked to shop, but she complained about everything the whole time.

'She didn't like some challenges and she would ask, 'Why am I doing this? Eric's a guy'. But other girls like Charla and Mirna and the beauty queens never complained once... That got me really mad and I wanted to tell her to shut up.'

On a positive note, Sanchez conceded Turner was 'really strong and did the tasks well'.

'Even though she always wanted to give up and was crying every day, she fought on,' he added.

No, I really think that luck played more of a role as to who should stay or leave. I think people blamed "karma" when something happened to them. When Danny and Ozwald got lost, it was their fault not karma. All they needed to do was get into a taxi and find the direction. That was just poor racing and bad luck. I donít think the universe cares about The Amazing Race.

Earl was on Regis and Kelly this morning (and poor Regis.. didn't he have time after his surgery to watch Survivor.... stupid questions man....) (and Lakisha sang "and I'm telling you...." on this show and blew it big time.... not good at all)

*Even though Earl placed Kansas City, Kansas as his home town... he lives in Santa Monica, Cali.....*He is an Advertising EXECUTIVE.....*His main accounts are Honda and the California Lottery.....*A casting person from CBS approached him in a restaurant to see if he was interested in running THE AMAZING RACE!!!*Because a candidate dropped out of Survivor he was asked to take the spot TWO DAYS BEFORE the flight to Fiji. *Up to that time he had not followed Survivor.*Earls mom told him he owed her...?? And he is giving her a CHUNK of the winnings (i wouldn't ever say this to my kid... even if i thought it)

Damn. I am clearly not eating in the right restaurants....

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Oh they rarely cast by application now a days. Alex, he was found on myspace as well as James from Big Brother for example. And then you already know that Michele had tried out for Amazing Race and that BJ had tried out for Survivor. Then you all know the story about Erika Landin casting for Amazing Race and Survivor Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

TVG: What are you guys up to now?Kandice: Weíre both at turning points in our lives right now where weíre open to opportunities. Iím here in Canada at the moment, my finacť lives in Toronto. So Iím transitioning between here and New York right now. Dustinís making a move to California, and the doors are kind of wide open.

And a comment from Mirna:

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Like at one point they had $600 they had gathered which none of us could understand. We were begging for money because a lot of us didnít have enough money to eat food, and I think they just did special things. I donít know if thatís why Eric chose the language he did when they referred to him.

I'm really sorry, but Mirna really seems to pull some information out of her ass when giving interviews.

One morning after sleeping like the innocent or the dead, we came down to breakfast at the Serena Hotel, a luxurious chain of hotels owned by the Aga Khan, to find Phil Keoghan, the host of the ABC reality show "The Amazing Race," seated next to us. We instantly recalled spotting two blond women sailing along the coastline with a camera crew in the back of their dhow. And so it was confirmed, again a couple of days later by the pool, when we overheard another guest talking.

Would have been really nice to have had this info sooner, wouldn't it?

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Winning halau on CBSThe Merrie Monarch Festival will get a bit of network television exposure when this year's overall champions, the kane of Halau I Ka Wekiu, will appear on a segment of "The CBS Early Show" around 8:30 tomorrow morning. A CBS news team, hosted by Phil Keoghan ("The Amazing Race"), collaborated with the Big Island Visitors Bureau and festival organizers to shadow the halau during last month's competition in Hilo.

Halau I Ka Wekiu swept the hula kahiko and hula 'auana competitions at the prestigious festival and was the overall winner in points, rare for an all-male halau.

Based in Honolulu, the halau's kumu hula are Karl Veto Baker and Michael Nalanakila'ekolu Casupang.

DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARBULLETIN.COMHalau I Ka Wekiu (kane) under the direction of kumu hula Karl Veto Baker and Michael Nalanakila'ekolu Casupang dance during the 'auana portion of the Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition. They swept the kahiko and 'auana and overall awards.

Apparently the CBS Emmy nominations have gone virtual--so you can WATCH THE EMMY NOMINATED EPISODES of your favorite shows here. Amazing Race included--see the two nominated episodes in their entirety!

Now why can't they give us this during the season too?

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